[Janice D. Soderling]

Esther Greenleaf Mürer is the featured poet at Centrifugal Eye in the new issue, following up Cathy's ditto of last issue.

Also John Milbury-Steen, a regular at CE, has work there.

It is all about mix-ups.

[Michael Cantor]

Congratulations to Esther, but I tried to check this out, and had massive difficulty dealing with the non-intuitive web site, and getting up anything that I could read, and navigating was almost impossible. It's not that it's too crude - just the opposite - bells and whistles galore, but no clues on how to use them.

Is it just me? Were others able to get on this site and navigate with ease?

[W.F. Lantry]

Originally Posted by Michael Cantor

Is it just me? Were others able to get on this site and navigate with ease?

Michael,

Get used to it. Issuu's pulling some market share and getting notice:

http://issuu.com/

http://blog.issuu.com/?p=378

To me, it seems like an awful lot of code to make a screen behave like a book, with few of the benefits of one and all the clunkiness of the other. But rationality does not apply to such things. The proof: I even know people who actually like PDFs, which many others view as the best possible illustration of the problem of evil. Go figure...

Thanks,

Bill

[Janice D. Soderling]

There are two ways to view it.

One is the "issu way" which takes some getting used to and which not everyone enjoys but others are big fans of. It remains to be seen if this turns out to be an electronic Edsel.

Then there is the conventional way. I confess that is the viewing method I use most of the time. Possibly it depends on screen size etc. I don't have a giant screen.

[Michael Cantor]

If I could read it the "conventional" way, I would. But all I get are annoying graphics, and a condescending attitude from the Publisher as we are told to EAT YOUR SPINACH BECAUSE ONCE YOU DO YOU'LL LIKE IT AND IT'S GOOD FOR YOU. I've run into this once or twice before, and I always find it annoying. Basically, I'm in it for the poetry and some clean, accompanying graphics - and anything done with the graphics that shows what a clever boy the art director is - while interfering with the poetry - doesn't work for me. As far as I'm concerned, Issu isn't. It's focused on providing a splashy web site and magazine. All I want to do is read Esther's poems.

[Esther Murer]

Michael,

See my notice above posted today (26th). It might help with navigation.

Missed this post (blush). Thanks, Janice.

Esther